What does new Home Office research on the Migrant Journey tell us about migration to the UK? Jon Simmons

Introduction

The Migrant Journey was first published in Autumn 2010, with a further report in Summer 2011, providing for the first time an analysis of how non-EU migrants coming to the United Kingdom under various categories of visa (work, study, family) differ in their passage through the immigration system, in their propensities to switch categories, the length of time they remain and the proportions who go on to achieve settlement.